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Re: [BackupPC-users] Had to reinstall

2012-04-17 11:44:39
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Had to reinstall
From: David Williams <dwilliams AT dtw-consulting DOT com>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:43:21 -0400
On 4/17/2012 11:27 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 8:03 AM, David Williams
> <dwilliams AT dtw-consulting DOT com>  wrote:
>>> And you don't see much in the web interface until you can log in as
>>> and admin user - so apache has to be configured to request a login for
>>> the location and you need to have your login in $Conf{CgiAdminUsers}.
>>>
>> Ok, so that is where I am stuck, apache is not asking me for a login.  I
>> have my config.pl file from my previous install (located in
>> /etc/backuppc) and it does have an admin user define in
>> $Conf{CgiAdminUsers}.  I also have a .htaccess file in my
>> /var/www/backuppc directory so I am not sure what apache is not asking
>> for a login.
> Do you have a copy of your old httpd.conf file (and snippets from
> /etc/httpd/conf.d/ if you used them.   The authentication needs to be
> required when accessing the cgi script which might not be in the
> protected directory.
>
> If you are starting over from scratch, you might find it easier to use
> a version packaged for your linux distribution, although you have to
> pay some attention to where the packages move things and mount your
> old archive in the right place, it would make a future reinstall a lot
> easier.
I was able to get it working :)  I went from Mandriva Linux to Mageia, 
which is a fork of Mandriva, so very, very similar.  Thanks for all the 
help.

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